can i activate it? LIKE WILL IT COME WITH MINUTES?
31289
I activated mine four years ago when it was brand new - it came with about ten minutes.
796878
No. You have to buy your minutes. The Battery, Charger, Activation Card and Services Guide are already Included.
1420506
You have to buy a EX431 that comes with triple minutes. Some of these phones come with just double minutes. When you buy minutes, they are automatically tripled - you don't have to do anything special.
1614890
As far as I know you can activate whenever you want. The plans, however, do change. What is available today may not be available next month.
142322
i bought as a prepaid only phone. Then added minutes through a prepaid card I got at Walmart. Can also add time onine. No activation fee.
1620640
you can go to t mobile support and ask them. but so long as it is not a phone where you have to buy minutes in advance, it should work
1776887
It is activated at the store you bought it from...but, you do not start using minutes until you enter the pin# into the phone
1164372
No and yes; you can buy it and pay for minutes/data, but the minutes/data you purchase will be gone in 30 days. This might be good if you use everything in 30 days, but bad if you are expecting it to hold its value until you use everything.
1726235
I set up an account on the Tracfone web site and add minutes there. It is easy to do. I think you can do it from the phone also.
1087098
You have to activate in on Straight Talk website. It is pretty quick to do 5-10 minutes tops
1425775
It's always good to activate it. That way you are sure it is working. A very simple step to avoid a lot of disappointment.
642980
Sorry, got this plan myself about 1.5 months ago, and haven't activated it yet (if I even need to activate it)
11113
As the others answered you have to activate it with tracfone buy minutes abd months, and use it My older Tracfone didn't work from within my house this model does
2157172
as a previous owner of this phone which i gave to a friend's girlfriend to use. that when i first got it, that it did come with minutes upon activation. probably still need a net 10 phone card though to add tons of minutes. sure hope this helps.
2024539
no you can activate it from your phone by going to prepaid and it will tell you what to do from there
1021913
Yes, you can activate it in the US. You can test it by sending a text to it, as receiving texts is free. Using it in the US would be very expensive though, so I would advise against using it for calling in the US. You can't buy airtime with a US credit card, but you can buy top-up vouchers from online 3rd-party sellers if you want to load it up before you leave. I bought mine (from phonepal.co.uk) before leaving and managed to get money onto the account while still in the U.S. Otherwise, you can just wait until you are in the U.K. to buy airtime for it.
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As far as I am aware, from my experience with it, this phone is only for Verizon use. All I had to do when I owned one was to activate it by calling the number and putting in my Verizon info. It took no more than five mins!